USCGC Rollin Fritch is the US Coast Guard's 19th Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be homeported outside of the Caribbean. She is based at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey.
Rollin Fritch prepares to head to her homeport, Cape May, New Jersey, on September 1, 2016
Image: USCGC Rollin Fritch (WPC 1119) Co A
Rollin Fritch at Cape May homeport
The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces. Up to 66 vessels are to be built by the Louisiana-based firm Bollinger Shipyards, using a design from the Netherlands-based Damen Group, with the Sentinel design based on the company's Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel. The Department of Homeland Security's budget proposal to Congress, for the Coast Guard, for 2021, stated that, in addition to 58 vessels to serve the Continental US, they requested an additional six vessels for its portion of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia.
The USCGC Benjamin Bottoms in San Francisco
A graphic of USCG Sentinel-class cutter modifications made to the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel design
USCGC Raymond Evans, the tenth Sentinel-class cutter
Video was released when USCGC William Trump conducted a 20-hour pursuit of a high-speed 35 ft (11 m) center console boat stolen from Fort Myers, Florida, in December 2015.
